Michael Lee 🍕

Posted on Aug 13, 2019

git commit -m "_____"

#justforfun #fun #game #git

A: 🎉
B: test
C: initial commit

Or suggest your own answer.

Top comments (36)

Dustin King • Aug 13 '19

git commit -m "I think I figured it out"

git commit -m "I didn't figured it out"

Stargator • Aug 13 '19

I would have also accepted:

git commit -m "This time I figured it out"

leojpod • Aug 13 '19

# From https://github.com/ngerakines/commitment/issues/69#issuecomment-91053061
git config --global alias.yolo '!git add -A && git commit -m "$(curl --silent --fail https://whatthecommit.com/index.txt)"'

Michael Lee 🍕 • Aug 13 '19

What does this do?

leojpod • Aug 13 '19

commit whatever changes you have and use one of the random messages from whatthecommit.com/

Stargator • Aug 13 '19

git commit -m "Genesis 1:1"

git commit -m "Let there be Light"

git commit -m "Let there be _____" (insert your own)

git commit -m "This is going to take more than 6 days"

Nicolás Danelón • Aug 15 '19

love you already

Praneet Nadkar • Aug 14 '19

git commit -m "Fixed it"

git commit -m "Fixed it for real this time"

git commit -m "Damn. Fixed"

git commit -m "Fix it for real"

git commit -m "Finally"

git commit -m "Build fails"

git commit -m "F**kin regex!"

Michael Lee 🍕 • Aug 14 '19

🤣

Robin Palotai • Aug 13 '19 • Edited

git commit -t emptyfile

Then I write a proper commit message in the editor. Mostly.

Put a commit msg template in your repo instead emptyfile if you like that better. Add a bash alias.

Edit: ah, I missed the joke?

Michael Lee 🍕 • Aug 13 '19

Oh wow I did not know that the -t option even existed. Do you know of any resources @bootcode that is similar to what your template workflow looks like?

Robin Palotai • Aug 13 '19

Happy it helps. No specific commenting workflow. Interestingly there are hits
out there about git comments, but they mostly cover formatting. That's nice
(and do read definitely), but the focus should be on content first, formatting
second. I can live with the title ending in a dot, sorry :)

What is more interesting is the content of the message. If we are limited to a single line (as with -m), too much interesting detail gets lost.

The commit message should give context for the unfamiliar reader. Imagine someone searching for the cause of a bug, going through all changes made in a given interval. A good commit message can reveal if there's something relevant in there or not.

The message should include:

First line with brief description of change.
Purpose of the change.
Broader context of the change.
Follow-up work to expect.
How the reviewer can try the change
- command for batch stuff
- demo url or screenshot for UI changes
How the change was tested (if not apparent from CI)

For example:

Add initial support for undotted section numbers.

This change lets us roll out support for FooBarQuux documents in English.
Normally section numbers in FooBar documents are followed by dots. But in
FooBarQuux, there's a special convention to make section numbers undotted.

Note: the undotted numbers increase monotonically and don't get reset by
intertwining higher-level headings. While not forbidden, Table Of Contents
consumers might not expect this situation. So rollout should be gradual to
catch any errors.

This is part of the broader effort tracked in bug/55443 about migrating away
from plain FooBar documents.

Follow-up change will add support for three more languages, also increase test
coverage. Once German is supported, bug/12345 will be unblocked.

I also added a tool for quick experimentation on the test corpus. Example
usage:

    bazel build //foo/bar:quux
    ./bazel-bin/foo/bar/quux --input_dir=/bog --language=en --summary_only

TESTED=checked corpus with tool, ran integration tests

The commit message also acts as a test of the rationale. It happened to me multiple times that I took 2 hours writing a change, then while phrasing the rationale part of the commit message it dawned on me Ouch. Actually this is not the right approach for that purpose.

As for a general git usage model, I use the nvie model with content.

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